73. Silence in Therapy: What's the Story? (with Dr. Gene Combs)
Very Bad Therapy
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Is Narrative Therapy an Expression of Power?
Elastory: I think a bad psychoanalysts, it feels cold, icy, distant, judgmental. There's like this kind of space in between psychoanalysis and narrative work where there is this assumption that clients want to hide what they really need to talk about from the therapist. In forcing a silence and not providing the client an out, they're forcing the client to do the work,. quote unquote, of therapy. So I'm wondering if you, as a narrative therapist, is there a way that those of us who aren't full-blown narrative therapists, what could be useful about taking more of a narrative approach to this concept in therapy? You don't have to
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